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	The Rules of Attraction
		The characters in "The Rules of Attraction" all use alcohol and drugs without a second thought, sleep with the most convenient person available and have no idea what they want to do with their lives.
		However, like most of Ellis' work, The Rules of Attraction uses snippets of characters' lives to tell the story of a community, or at least of a group.
		"Rules of Attraction" is a wicked little gem of literary curare, all high-style and aimless debauchery, and the best of it is that Ellis springs some kind of wicked little trapdoor into the minds of his victims.
	www.usingenglish.com /amazon/us/067978148X.html (1210 words)

	The Rules of Attraction Movie Review (2002) from Channel 4 Film
		Updating Bret Easton Ellis' 1987 fictional New England campus-set novel to the present day, The Rules Of Attraction follows a series of debauched co-eds - led by James Van Der Beek - as they drink, screw and snort their way into oblivion
		Yet, far superior to his disappointing debut, the 1994 bank heist movie Killing Zoe, The Rules of Attraction goes some way to reminding us that Tarantino isn't the only achingly hip director in town.
		Choreographed to a period soundtrack featuring Blondie and The Cure, the film is a visual tour-de-force, full of beguiling camera tricks.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=107829 (322 words)

	Drury University: The Rules of Attraction (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rules of Attraction was a film I never really heard anything about, and had little knowledge of the cast.
		Rules of Attraction, takes a look at the power of traditional stereotypes on a college campus.
		Rules of Attraction is one of the most freshly filmed movies I have seen in a long time.
	www.drury.edu /multinl/story.cfm?ID=6324&NLID=162 (876 words)

	Rules of Attraction review (2002) James Van Der Beek - Qwipster's Movie Reviews
		The Rules of Attraction is a classic case of a movie that has many interesting ideas and scenes but never is able to string them together into a unified and cohesive whole.
		That's about where the similarities end, as The Rules of Attraction is as soulless and empty-headed a movie as there is, made almost laughable when it has the audacity to try to be erudite.
		I guess at its core, The Rules of Attraction is about the misconceptions and misunderstandings between people infatuated with each other that can cause extreme happiness or severe depression depending on the last conversation.
	qwipster.net /rulesofattraction.htm (738 words)

	The Popkorn Junkie :: Rules of Attraction
		Yes, if you are unaware, "Rules of Attraction" is based on a novel by Brett Easton Ellis, who also wrote the novel that "American Psycho" is based on.
		Avary is original and "The Rules of Attraction" is fantastic.
		"The Rules of Attraction" is the most visually stunning film of the year, and one of the year's hands down best pictures.
	popkornjunkie.com /reviews/rulesofattraction.html (1270 words)

	Movie Review for The Rules of Attraction - 2002-10-11
		The Rules of Attraction stars a usual assortment of young beauties, both male and female, cavorting about college in the usual way, completely shallow in the traditional manner, and totally wasted to a degree no real university would ever allow.
		Rules is all the excess of a typically edgy teen movie, just more of it, and minus any of the interrelational entanglements, which seem to get in the way doing more acid.
		What I’m telling you, is that despite Avery’s attempts to the contrary, Rules of Attraction is sanctimonious trash that’s trying desperately to make you feel something but succeeds only in making individual viewers numb and accepting of the vile waste that is a horde of loser teens’ worlds.
	www.filmhobbit.com /cgi-bin/movies/movies.cgi?action=showreview&review=rulesofattract (567 words)

	The Rules of Attraction
		The Rules of Attraction is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis published in 1987.
		The Rules of Attraction was adapted into a movie in 2002.
		It was directed by Roger Avary and started James Van Der Beek as Sean, Shannyn Sossamon as Lauren, Ian Somerhalder as Paul, and Kip Pardue as Victor.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/t/th/the_rules_of_attraction.html (376 words)

	The Rules of Attraction (DVDs)
		A not-quite dazzling array of cinematic tricks (split screens, freeze-frames, running the film backwards, rapid editing, etc.) are used to depict college students floundering in the pursuit of love and meaning.
		The Rules of Attraction comes to life for about five minutes when an actor named Russell Sams appears for an outrageous restaurant scene, then slumps back into terminal disaffection when he departs.
		The Rules of Attraction" is a twisted story about sex, drugs, and college life.
	www.coolshopping.com /dvds.php/Mode/product/page/1/browse/130/AsinSearch/B000089Q73/name/The%2520Rules%2520of%2520Attraction (931 words)

	The Rules of Attraction Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Roger Avary, co-writer of Pulp Fiction, has adapted his new film, The Rules of Attraction from a rather empty, insignificant novel by Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho.
		Then, another step back in time shifts attention to Rules' antihero, Sean Bateman (James Van Der Beek), quaffing Jack Daniels and claiming in voice-over to be an emotional vampire.
		Rules is fairly straightforward afterwards, and follows the general thrust of Ellis' novel —; that love and lust are rarely reciprocated.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=134831&LF=MRM&LF=MRP (845 words)

	The Rules of Attraction (2002) - A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review
		The Rules of Attraction comes to life for about five minutes when an actor named Russell Sams appears for an outrageous restaurant scene, then slumps back into terminal disaffection when he departs.
		Some notes: The Rules of Attraction is based on a Brett Easton Ellis novel and was adapted and directed by Roger Avery.
		The Rules of Attraction is set on the East Coast at a small, private, liberal arts college in the early to mid 90s.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /rules_of_attraction.htm (1498 words)

	Cinema Confidential Contest: Rules of Attraction
		Lions Gate Entertainment's The Rules of Attraction is Academy Award winning director/writer ROGER AVARY's scathingly insightful film adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' scabrously funny social satire of life and love among the young and the privileged.
		For The Rules of Attraction, Avary has assembled a remarkable group of actors, all of whom were drawn to become participants in Avary's ambitious, incisive and highly contemporary comedy of very bad manners.
		For many of these talents, The Rules of Attraction represents a distinct and courageous change of pace from their previous work.
	www.cinecon.com /rules (228 words)

	Rules of Attraction, The (2002): Reviews
		Such is the case with the callow and cynical The Rules of Attraction.
		The Rules of Attraction is the kind of movie that leaves vague impressions and a nasty aftertaste.
		Rules Of Attraction is by far the worst movie I have ever seen in my entire life, I am still recovering from it.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/rulesofattraction (1496 words)

	RTÉ.ie Entertainment: The Rules of Attraction
		James Van Der Beek may be best known for his role as the sensitive and introspective Dawson Leery on the long-running TV series 'Dawson's Creek' but any young fan who wanders in to 'Rules of Attraction' hoping for more of the same is in for a big shock.
		After a choppy prologue in which the film is rewound until we have seen the party from the points of view of Sean, Lauren and Paul, 'Rules of Attraction' spools backwards to the beginning of the story before settling down, temporarily, into a more straightforward narrative.
		'Rules of Attraction' is bleak, nihilistic, profoundly funny and has the added bonus of a great cameo from Faye Dunaway.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2003/0327/rulesofattraction.html (448 words)

	Rules of Attraction, The (2002) Synopsis
		Lions Gate Entertainment's The Rules of Attraction is Academy Award winning director/writer ROGER AVARY's film adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' scabrously funny social satire of life and love among the young and the privileged.
		For The Rules of Attraction, Avary has assembled a remarkable group of actors, all of whom were drawn to become participants in Avary's ambitious, incisive and highly contemporary comedy of very bad manners.
		For many of these talents, The Rules of Attraction represents a distinct and courageous change of pace from their previous work.
	www.cinema.com /film/7104/rules-of-attraction/synopsis.phtml (131 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: The Rules Of Attraction (xhtml)
		There is no entry portal in "The Rules of Attraction," and I spent most of the movie feeling depressed by the shallow, selfish, greedy characters.
		This is not to imply that "The Rules of Attraction" is in any sense a campus sex-romp comedy.
		The inhabitants of "The Rules of Attraction" are superficial and transparent.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20021011/REVIEWS/210110304/1023 (614 words)

	The Rules of Attraction
		The Rules of Attraction, based on Bret Easton Ellis' novel, is his rallying cry at Hollywood for people to take notice.
		The Rules of Attraction follows some college students as they seem to do everything except go to class.
		There isn't really a point to The Rules of Attraction, and that's probably what Avary was going for.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/rules_of_attraction.html (482 words)

	The Rules Of Attraction film movie trailer review at The Z Review
		Set in New England during the 80's, The Rules Of Attraction is based around three students who have no particular plans for the future, who get involved in a curious romantic triangle.
		I'm a little late in posting this X rated trailer for The Rules Of Attraction, but here it is none the less.
		A report on Rules Of Attraction was printed in the January 2002 issue of Total Film magazine.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/r/rulesofattraction.htm (859 words)

	Top Box Office Movies - The Rules of Attraction
		Suffice to say, The Rules of Attraction is a convoluted and passionless narrative that has no redeeming quality despite its juicy drug-fueled storyline and the sprinkling of some of today’s hot television commodities partaking in the self-serving frivolity.
		The Rules of Attraction does its best to parlay itself as a stinging sardonic satire on campus life while showing us what the real education is all about within the realm of indecision and anxiety that young folks face just before they break out into the real world.
		If anything, the filmmakers behind this pandering project certainly know the rules of attraction especially when it comes to exploiting a willing and ready-made MTV crowd of hormonal exhibitionists hoping to revel in the vapid mayhem that this energetic dud gladly offers without reservation.
	www.theworldjournal.com /special/movies/2002/rulesofattraction.htm (849 words)

	The Rules of Attraction in the Game of Love \| LiveScience
		After all this and more, the rules of attraction for the human species are still not clearly understood.
		Some are as clearly defined as the prominent, feminine eyes of a supermodel or the desirable hips of a well-built man. Other rules work at the subconscious level, motivating us to action for evolutionary reasons that are tucked inside clouds of infatuation.
		Somewhere amid attraction and sex, we all hope, are strong feelings of love.
	www.livescience.com /humanbiology/060213_attraction_rules.html (2130 words)

	Easton Ellis, Brett Book Easter Egg : Return of the American Psycho
		In Rules of Attraction, someone remarks, at a campus party, that almost everyone was there, except a strange group of Greek students who were probably off murdering a farmer.
		In Less than Zero, Rules of attraction and American Psycho, there are mentions of a girl called Vanden who went/goes to Camden.
		I don't know if Rules of Attraction came before American Psycho (although i think it did), anyway i noticed that both Sean Bateman and Lauren, and Patrick Bateman and Evelyn go out for dinner(on seperate occiasons and in seperate books) with a tweedy couple that are family friends.
	www.eeggs.com /items/9447.html (679 words)

	The rules of attraction \| Herald Sun (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It's nearly midnight at a heaving, inner-city club and a cluster of girls are giggling over their cocktails, when one looks up and spots a young man across the room.
		Not likely, say some scientists, who would argue it was his symmetrical face, the length of his index finger or even that she looks a little like his mother...
		Rose-toting romantics may scoff at the notion, but scientists are increasingly analysing love and sexual attraction, in a bid to identify exactly why we fall for one another.
	www.news.com.au /heraldsun/story/0,21985,20480148-5006049,00.html (1196 words)

	Rules of Attraction - review - Stumped? - Stumped At the Video Store is a Magazine About Movies, DVD releases, actors, ...
		If Rules of Attraction is to be remembered, it will be remembered as a film with a barely veiled conservative agenda interwoven into a story line rife with sex and drug use.
		Seen in this context, Rules of Attraction joins a host of movies containing envelope-pushing scenes of sex, violence or the obscene that belie their themes of family values, abstinence and, in some cases, religious fundamentalism.
		Adapted from Brett Easton Ellis’ book of the same name by writer/director Roger Avary, The Rules of Attraction employs various manipulations of time as a foundation for its look at both the relationships and illicit activities undertaken by the students of Camden College.
	stumpedmagazine.com /reviews/rules-of-attraction.html (417 words)

	AboutFilm.com - The Rules of Attraction (2002)
		Yet, if you scratch the surface, Bret Easton Ellis's Rules of Attraction is a facile novel, all style over substance with unclear motivations and unfocused narrative--just like his first novel, Less Than Zero, the title of which would, incidentally, correspond to my rating for both books.
		The Rules of Attraction wants us to care about rich kids at a fictional New England college, who develop random unrequited crushes on one another amid a haze of drinking and partying.
		Avary, who is being touted by Lions Gate as one of the makers of Pulp Fiction (he co-wrote the stories on which Tarantino's screenplay is based), employs heaps of directorial gimmickry in bringing The Rules of Attraction to the screen--too much.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/r/rulesofattraction.htm (647 words)

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		In fact, the rules of attraction are quite complex.
		he rules of attraction state that for all relationships, a level of mutual attraction must be present, and usually that attraction is based on a combination of both physical and mental elements.
		The rules of attraction encompass the attractive personality you cultivate and the natural beauty which radiates from that.
	www.humonline.com /relations/teenflingdetail.aspx?id=187 (747 words)

	The Rules of Attraction
		By adapting Bret Easton Ellis' pessimistic novel, The Rules of Attraction, writer-director Roger Avary is able to utilize nearly every visual technique he learned while working with Quentin Tarantino in the now infamous Video Archives.
		Heaven, to degrade their cutesy public image, Rules of Attraction is free of morality and a conscience.
		Perfect for the two young thespians, whose characters are so selfish and void of emotions that it would be easier for audiences to sympathize with a snail.
	www.movienavigator.org /rulesofattraction.htm (710 words)

	Rules of Attraction, The :: R : Gourt (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In general, attraction is a force that moves one object to another.
		In grammar, attraction is the process by which a relative pronoun takes on — that is, is "attracted to" — the case of its antecedent.
		Upcomingmovies.com: The Rules of Attraction - Cast and plot information, release dates, and preview commentary on what the movie might be like.
	www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http://arts.gourt.com/Movies/Titles/R/Rules-of-Attraction,-The.html (444 words)

	The Rules of Attraction
		It's not easy to work up much enthusiasm for shallow, selfish, and greedy college kids, but writer-director Roger Avary (Killing Zoe) enables us to do so by virtue of his compelling narrative.
		Rules primarily concerns itself with the interaction of four people.
		To begin with, there's slick young drug dealer Sean (James Van Der Beek), who desperately wants to bed chic coed Lauren (Shannyn Sossamon), who once dated Paul (Ian Somerhalder), a bisexual who once dated Victor (Kip Pardue), another bisexual who would like to date Lauren.
	www.findthefun.com /movies/m00/m0013433.htm (267 words)

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